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Home > Golf > Nationwide Tour Players > Brenden Pappas
Brenden Pappas
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play.
Brenden Pappas is one of the proficient golf players who earned a reputed position for himself at the Nationwide Tour. Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S. based PGA, Professional Golfers’ Association Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well at the Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level.
Pappas was born in Phalaborwa, South Africa. A 6 feet 3 inches tall contender with a weight of 225 pounds most recently finished at the number 178 position on the 2005 PGA Tour money list. He made the cut in 10 of 15 events, with a Tied 12th at the FedEx St. Jude Classic event. He ended the 2004 season with number 137 position on the tour money list, with 524,905 US dollars.
Pappas’ best effort came in 2004 as Tied 12th at the Buick Open. He posted four rounds in the 60s at the 2004 Valero Texas Open and finished Tied 22nd. At Southern Farm Bureau, he was 11 under for the day, 20 under for tournament, with one hole to play before settling for a 10-under 62 after a bogey on the 72nd hole. He regained the PGA Tour card for 2003 with Tied 8th at 2002 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. He played in 26 events and made six starts, and began rookie year on Nationwide Tour with three top fives in first seven starts.
Pappas also compiled a victory at the TearDrop Tour in 2000 after winning the Virginia Beach Open. He finished Tied 2nd at the season-opening Movistar Panama Championship after sharing the 54-hole lead with eventual winner Tripp Isenhour, he held a three-shot lead late in the third round before faltering with bogeys at number 15 and 18 and eventually dropped into a tie with Isenhour at 10-under.
Pappas’ superior approach and dedication towards the sport made him surpass the other players of his epoch. He became an international celebrity and a symbol of hope to millions.
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